The monarch butterfly can be found living in eastern North America. They migrate to the warmer states, such as California, when the eastern states get colder.
Monarch caterpillars can be found on plants like the Bloodflower plant and milkweed .There are many kinds of Milkweed like Pink swamp milkweed,Ice Ballet milkweed ,and wild milkweed .As for the Monarch butterfly they can be found on many different flowers like orange butterfly weed and lilac bushes just to name a few.
Monarch Butterflys live around milkweed fields, milkweed patchs and sandy areas where milk weed grows.
They will live and lay their eggs almost anywhere their is milkweed. The eggs are layed inside the plant and the catipillars will hatch and feed off of mostly milkweed.
Patches of Milkweed, wherever in the world
from a moth.
Monarch butterflies start their lives out as caterpillars. A 'baby monarch' would be a monarch caterpillar. Monarch caterpillars striped black and yellow along their back.
Yes!
No it does not a monarch only eats milkweed and dogbane.
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Monarch butterfly caterpillars are yellow, black, and white striped and grow to be about two inches long before they pupate.
It's a monarch, Monarch's eat milkweed exclusively.
I haven't had a problem with ants but there are wasps that lay their eggs in the caterpillars. The wasp larva eat their way out, killing the monarch caterpillar. I frequently have this problem with the caterpillars of swallowtail butterflies.
Not all of them.
caterpillers
Caterpillars do not turn into wasps or beetles. The only type of insect that caterpillars turn into are moths or butterflies.
It's the host plant they evolved for their caterpillars to feed on, really--milkweed. That's pretty much the main reason why they live where they do.
Milkweed is a producer. It feeds monarch caterpillars.